Where You'll See Jon Bon Jovi, Rachel Maddow & Kathryn Bigelow In The Same Room
Posted on Apr 30, 2010 @ 07:46AM - 5 comments
The weekend the stars come to DC, and RadarOnline.com has all the scoop.
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner has become a Washington, D.C. tradition and is usually attended by the President and Vice President. In recent years, the event has exploded into a weekend-plus long series of events.
Tammy Haddad, DC media guru and hostess of one of the hottest parties says: "This year is an unprecedented celeb fest - Chicago and Hollywood met last year. Celebs are engaged in the political process and are back for more."
Haddad's famous Saturday "Garden Brunch" started in 1993 and is the ultimate mix of political, social, media and Hollywood elite. Haddad won't release her VIP guest list but the Garden Brunch will be live streamed on her website.
Capitol File Magazine's famous after party is always a coveted ticket. At the illustrious Mayflower Hotel, lucky attendees might hang with The Hangover star Bradley Cooper, Jessica Simpson or get the scoop on Iron Man 2 with ScarJo.
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The MSNBC after party is said to over-booked by 500 people. RadarOnline.com will be the only media outlet on the red carpet. No thanks! If you can Salahi your way in there, you may see Jon Bon Jovi, Alec Baldwin, Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow with Rachel Maddow tending bar.
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Want to attend Vanity Fair's après-fete at the French Ambassador's residence? Fuggedaboutit! Unless you're making $5 million a movie, are a big name on the Conde Nast's masthead or you work at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, you're not going.
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We've been told fabulous author and VF journalistic Christopher Hitchens only gets four invites. "I personally find it somewhat embarrassing to beg publications you've been covering day in and day out to come to their party," says Betsy Rothstein, co-editor of MediaBistro's FishbowlDC, "Not that I won't or haven't done it, but at some point, it just feels like f**k it, it's not worth it."
VIDEO: Hurt Locker Beats Avatar for Best Picture and Best Director Wins
Posted on Mar 07, 2010 @ 10:00PM - 1 comment
Talk about David beating Goliath!
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Kathryn Bigelow and her film The Hurt Locker snagged the Best Director and Best Picture Oscars during Sunday night's telecast of the 82nd Academy Awards, besting ex-husband and friend James Cameron and his film Avatar.
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A stunned and grateful Bigelow made her way to the stage to give thanks to the people who helped her along.
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Adding to her disbelief, Bigelow had to quickly turn around less than a minute after walking off the stage to join the rest of The Hurt Locker team as they accepted the statue for Best Picture.
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEWS: 90210 Hottie AnnaLynne McCord Jokes About Her 12 Oscar Nominations
Posted on Mar 06, 2010 @ 08:19AM - Add a comment
The QVC Red Carpet Style party was held under the stars at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills Friday night and the celebs weighed in on their Oscar favorites. 90210 hottie AnnaLynne McCord reminded RadarOnline.com exclusively that she has multiple nominations this year. "I actually have 12 nominations," AnnaLynne joked. "I have five lead actress nominations, and five supporting and two best picture for a film I didn't do. No one knows the difference."
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Jokes aside, she weighed in on her favorites for the Academy Awards airing Sunday. "There is only one pick for the whole night, every award should go to one person, not me actually, although that would be awesome James Cameron. James Cameron is the reason I wanted to be an actress. I saw Titanic when I was nine [yes she is that young!]. I hope they win all nine awards. James Cameron is the best director that ever walked this planet. I truly believe that."
Dancing With the Stars beauty Karina Smirnoff is on the other side of the most interesting competition in recent Oscar memory. "I like The Blind Side," Karina told RadarOnline.com. "But I love The Hurt Locker and I love the fact that The Hurt Locker is directed by the woman who used to be married to the director of Avatar, James Cameron. I think the whole marital competition is great, you go for the girl power!"
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The QVC Red Carpet Style party brought out Oscar-nominated Anna Kendrick who was adorable in a Phillip Lim dress and told RadarOnline.com that she was "excited" about the show on Sunday.
Her Twilight co-stars Nikki Reed and Kellan Lutz showed up, and despite not hanging together inside the party, AnnaLynne and Kellan were super friendly with each other and chatted inside the hotel lobby side by side with each other on a sofa.
Denise Richards, Joan Collins, Holly Robinson Peete, Kristie Swanson, Jessica Lowndes, Angie Harmon, Eric Stonestreet and even RadarOnline.com favorite Tila Tequila all partied the night away and left with the coveted QVC gift bag that included a Kodak Easy Share Z950, a Dennis Basso blanket and KJL by Kenneth Jay Lane jewelry.
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEWS: Celebs Shine At Pre-Oscar Bash; First-Time Nominee Jeremy Renner Taking Mom To Show!
Posted on Mar 05, 2010 @ 06:35AM - 1 comment
Oscar fever is sweeping Tinseltown and a slew of A-list celebrities walked the red carpet for The Hollywood Reporter’s first Nominees Night at Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s house in Los Angeles Thursday night, and RadarOnline.com was there to chat up the stars.
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The Hurt Locker’s breakout star and first-time Best Actor nominee Jeremy Renner may be Hollywood’s hunk de jour, but he only has eyes for Mom. “The moment I found out[I was nominated], I called and asked her to go, and she said yes!” he told RadarOnline.com reporter Viviana Vigil.
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The Blind Side’s star Quinton Aaron has his outfit all ready for Sunday’s festivities, except the shoes, “these are size 20, so they are kinda hard to find.”
Although Michele Rodriguez’s film, Avatar, is nominated for Best Picture, all she could talk about was The Hurt Locker’s nominated director Kathryn Bigelow. “Dude! I can’t believe how hot she is!”
Next Stop, Oscars: Mo'Nique Wins BAFTA For Precious
Posted on Feb 22, 2010 @ 05:50AM - 2 comments
Award season is here and RadarOnline.com is keeping tabs on all of the events, such as Sunday's British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards, where Mo'Nique took home the Best Supporting Actress for her dramatic turn in the critically-acclaimed film Precious, making her the odds-on favorite to pick up the same honor at next month's Oscars.
62nd Writers Guild Awards
Posted on Feb 21, 2010 @ 01:05PM - Add a comment
62nd Writers Guild Awards
James Cameron's Past & Current Wives Buddy Up At Writers Guild Awards
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It was a lovefest at Saturday night's Writer Guild Awards in Los Angeles, and no one seemed friendlier than two of James Cameron's wives.
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Wife #3, director Kathryn Bigelow and wife #5, Titanic costar Suzy Amis chatted up a storm and posed for cozy pics. Avatar director Cameron has taken five walks down the aisle, RadarOnline.com can report. He and Amis have been wed since 2000.
In what may be a sign of what's to come at the Academy Awards next month, the Bigelow-directed The Hurt Locker won for best original screenplay, Mark Boal took home the prize; and the best adapted screenplay went to George Clooney's Up In the Air.
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82nd Annual Academy Awards Nominee Luncheon
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Divorced Couple James Cameron & Kathryn Bigelow Make Oscar History -- Will Compete Against Each Other
Posted on Feb 02, 2010 @ 08:00AM - 2 comments
Directors James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow will make Oscar history when they become the first previously married couple to go up against one another in both the best picture and director categories during the 82nd annual Academy Awards.
And although Cameron’s $300 million blockbuster Avatar recently beat his own Titanic to become the highest grossing movie ever, Bigelow’s war movie The Hurt Locker – which only cost $9 million to make – could snatch both awards on Hollywood’s biggest night.
DVD Review: The Hurt Locker
Posted on Jan 14, 2010 @ 08:03PM - Add a comment
Pulled taut and throbbing with visceral fear, the stakes are clear from the start of The Hurt Locker, with barely a breath of relief until the credits roll.
This is exactly the effect that Kathryn Bigelow set out to create. In recent weeks, the director been awash in much-deserved awards nominations (including becoming only the seventh woman to receive a Directors Guild of America nod for a feature film) that have been showering praise on her documentary-like drama about men at war, and what drives them to it. In The Hurt Locker's DVD edition, which hit streets this week, the director opens up about her methodology in making the film, as well as some of the production nuances, hurdles and backstories.
During a behind-the-scenes segment, Bigelow explains that she wanted audiences to feel what it would be like to be in the elite bomb squad unit that the film depicts. Shot in Amman, Jordan, The Hurt Locker follows a fictional squad during a deployment in Baghdad in 2004, and offers a glimpse of their daily lives. Jeremy Renner stars as Sgt. William James, who dismantles the IEDs (Improvised explosive device) across the city, one bomb at a time. Wearing a gigantic protective suit and armed with no more than some tools and his instincts, he makes the slow walk to the bomb site in scene after scene, as his team covers him from snipers and other potential dangers.
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Sgt. James, it turns out, is a bit of a cowboy -- making up the rules as he goes along -- while his team members are less so: Sgt. JT Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) is more pensive, while Spc. Owen Eldridge (Brian Geraghty) is a baby-faced soldier with the weight of the war on his shoulders. As they learn to work and survive together, each confronts his own fears, and considers what compels them to take such risks, day after day. The Hurt Locker is fundamentally about addiction to war: why people flirt with death, how it affects them, and what keeps them coming back.
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In the DVD's commentary, writer and co-producer Mark Boal explains that the script was based on his stint as a journalist embedded with a bomb squad. At the time, the Iraqis' extensive the use of IEDs took the military by surprise, making Baghdad a kind of wild West, with no protocol. And while the script is his, his discussion with Bigelow reveals her intense attention to detail and commitment to executing her vision -- starting with the financing. Largely overseas capital funded The Hurt Locker, which allowed Bigelow the freedom to do things like film in the Middle East, cast non-"marquee value" actors (as she puts it), and insist on real military equipment, versus "HMEs" (Hollywood movie explosions).
Bigelow says that she was "more than intrigued" by Boal's script as a psychological profile. What also drew her to the film was her sense that Americans weren't getting the whole picture about what was going on in Iraq. With gripping suspense, believable characters and artful cinematography, The Hurt Locker brings us a taste of life at war, far too close for comfort.
